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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/11/09

    In reply to Fox News Is Ready for Your (Update: Birther) Protest
    I'm sorry that looks less like a protest and more like a line at the godforsaken Starbucks.

    And knowing Fox they'll say, "Tens of two showed up! See, that means something!"

    Yes, seven people now need bus fare back to their homes in "Twister" country. #protests
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    Image of Trai_Dep Trai_Dep
    11/11/09

    In reply to Fox News Is Ready for Your (Update: Birther) Protest
    Methinks it would take 3/5 more people to get Fox News to cover a more heavily-pigmented protest.
    Some of our rich traditions die hard. #protests
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Fox News Is Ready for Your (Update: Birther) Protest
    Thats not a protest. Its just a lady in a TJ Maxx coat. #protests
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    Image of TheMediaMob TheMediaMob
    11/11/09

    @nicepony: Maybe she's protesting name brands at full retail prices? #protests
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    Image of ShanghaiLil ShanghaiLil
    11/11/09

    In reply to Fox News Is Ready for Your (Update: Birther) Protest
    You know what I love most about karma? Her sense of irony. Really. #protests
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    Image of manchops manchops
    11/11/09

    In reply to Fox News Is Ready for Your (Update: Birther) Protest
    who's the drag queen in the white wig and fur shouldered white coat? And is that Roman Polanski next to her/him? I think Fox is being punked here #protests
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    11/11/09

    In reply to Fox News Is Ready for Your (Update: Birther) Protest
    What exactly is "long legged mack daddy" supposed to mean? Sometimes extreme racism just goes to a place I can't even figure out--like that sound that makes dogs bark that humans can't hear.
    Right? #protests
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/11/09

    @manchops: Yeah I'm not getting it either. Protest fail. #protests
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    Image of Gabriel Snyder Gabriel Snyder
    11/11/09

    @manchops: I was wondering that too. Turns out it's some pastor's nickname for Obama. #protests
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    11/11/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: That makes NO sense. Barry's a mack daddy to... His beautiful wife and mother to two wonderful kids.
    Which should be a-OK to the pastor-folk, shouldn't it?
    Trying to parse out where these people's thought train leads to results in mental derailment. #protests
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    11/11/09

    @Gabriel Snyder: Is this the same guy that called Obama's mom a "trashy white woman who messed around with Africans"? He managed to be self-hating and racist at the same time. #protests
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    11/11/09

    @Trai_Dep: Their train makes express stops in Crazytown, Nutterville, and LaLooney. #protests
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    Image of DennyCrane DennyCrane
    11/11/09

    In reply to Fox News Is Ready for Your (Update: Birther) Protest
    I'm sorry, but every time I see "Orly Taitz," my mind first registers "Oily Taintz."
    I'm not kidding. #protests
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    Image of NotChoinski NotChoinski
    11/11/09

    @DennyCrane: ORLLY? T'AINT #protests
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    Image of Beau Nerd Beau Nerd
    11/11/09

    In reply to Fox News Is Ready for Your (Update: Birther) Protest
    This is no laughing matter. I've heard Taitz can fell six men with the single bat of an eyelash. #protests
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    Image of Don Servillas Don Servillas
    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    I don't understand some gay men. Some are gifted like this one, a CUNY scholar with a 4.0 GPA, yet he got stuck in the chelsea gay stereotype of being a steroid queen and posing almost naked in gay magazines and owning a gay bar! I mean c'mon, if you are gifted with intelligence and talent, why not go out and change the world? I guess the superficial life of gay glitz, glamour and circuit parties is just too enticing for some. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @Don Servillas: How many people are really changing the world at their job? There are lots of high flying lucrative careers that have lots of superficiality and don't make the world a better place.

    He's his own boss, he's not stuck in cubicle-land, he works with friends, and he's around cute gay guys. He and his partners maintain nice bodies they sometimes use in ways to help promote their small business. Maybe he put fun over ambition, but I'm not seeing how his life path is so horrible. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/04/09

    @mostlymartian: I'm not either. If you're making a good living and enjoying life... that's fantastic. In comparison I took my near 4.0 gpa and got a dead end office job and a spare tire. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of BettyCrocker BettyCrocker
    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    Schweaty! #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    Hear, hear! to MessiahsHandle. As a fan of the Coop, I've been surprised at the choice of mates he's been associated with. Sounds totally snotty, but welcome to the real world. An Ivy Leaguer and so-called world respected journalist traipsing about with cookie cutter wine salesmen (Julio) and bartenders (Ben)? Is there such a shortage of gay men who can match him point for point in terms of refinement and education? Lucky boys these guys who get to marry WAY above their stations, and only because of the way they look. I supposed Andy is truly gay after all. Typical shallow looksist elitist queen.
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    11/03/09

    @jok695: AC has actually gone up a few notches in my book for this kinda thing. Hell, he's human. I think I'd be more apt to call him shallow/lookist/elitist if I had to open up the styles of the times and see his wedding photos to some other huge media freak such as the trump/kushner nuptials from a week ago. Slum on silver fox! #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @jok695: Dating someone you're attracted to doesn't make you shallow. But I wonder how the Coop and Maisani can have a normal relationship when Maisani is tending bar into the wee hours of the night each night including weekends. They must be on totally different schedules. #benjaminmaisani
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    mostlymartian promoted this comment Zira was starred Zira was unstarred
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    11/03/09

    @Oryx Hearts Crake: Maisani has been doing very little of the bartending at his bar for months. He has bartending partners and staff bartenders. He's seen out all the time doing things with AC. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @jok695: You actually sound like the elitist one. "Above their stations"? Are we in the 1800s?

    Cooper is a well travelled guy who comes across as very down to earth for a wealthy famous Vanderbilt. What's the big deal what if he's attracted to immigrants working common jobs instead of American Ivy League captains of industry?

    Lookism? Julio and Ben look like cute and fit guys in their 30s but I doubt either one of them has been fighting off modelling contracts. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    this is hysterical. he's actually much better looking in person, and (in my limited experience) surprisingly NICE #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of MessiahsHandle MessiahsHandle
    11/03/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    When I heard that the Coop was dating this guy it was as if something inside had died... forgive the melodrama, but I believe in this case it's warranted. You imagine that a smart, successful journalist would chose someone who was worthy of...at the very least, my intellectual fantasy. An equally smart and successful gay, quiet, maybe bookish, or perhaps a designer or artist - not tortured, but focused and independent. Someone who's able to stand on his own whilst Anderson is braving hurricanes on the gulf coast or dodging bullets in Waziristan...but alas Coop you consistently choose the stereotypical gays. Hunky boricuas, twinky latinos, and now a muscly beefcake beau hunk who straddles the line between Sean Cody and Honcho... more often shirtless than shirted..AND owner of a gay bar? Really, Andy? He can't even publicly declare he's gay, but chooses time and time again to shop at the Duplex? It's all so terribly cliché. Well enough is enough, my celebrity crush is officially over...That's "Se acabo" to you, Anderson. Ok Maisani was the valedictorian at CUNY, but I think the naked arm wrestling, the fondling of drag queens, the perpetual shirtlessness has nullified what little respect I may have had for the man. This guy had better be a fucking closeted Proust scholar before I regain any respect for the Coop. But somehow I fear that it's just too late, baby.
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    Image of MincnglyWhrdL'mer MincnglyWhrdL'mer
    11/03/09

    @MessiahsHandle: I'm sure coop is devistated to have lost you. really. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of mostlymartian mostlymartian
    11/03/09

    @MessiahsHandle: Pretty much all the male celebrity gays choose partners substantially less successful than themselves, no? The closest thing to a power couple I can think of is Siegried and Roy, and I don't even know if they're actually a couple.

    Dating someone opposite to you in some ways can be good. Two repressed quiet whitebread WASPs would be one really repressed quiet whitebread household. And would a bookish designer be up for things like shark diving and the Real Housewives of Atlanta? #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @MessiahsHandle: Save it for your therapist, buddy. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @MessiahsHandle: Yeah. That. All those words you typed. Or, you know, the guy might be an extraordinarily loving person, which is exactly what Anderson Cooper is looking for. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of Mariallena Mariallena
    11/03/09

    @mostlymartian:
    " The closest thing to a power couple I can think of is Siegried and Roy, "

    The original American gay power couple were J Edgard Hoover and Clyde Tolson.

    They ruled (and completely transformed) law enforcement in this country for 4 decaddes. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of Alessar Alessar
    11/04/09

    @MessiahsHandle: CUNY scholar with 4.0 GPA who owns his own business (albeit a bar/club) is not exactly a himbo. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/02/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    The man dressed in drag in photo no. 5 in the original gallery is Anderson Cooper. (I'm surprised noone else noticed.) #benjaminmaisani
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    mostlymartian promoted this comment Zira was starred Zira was unstarred
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    11/02/09

    @Oryx Hearts Crake: No, it's not Anderson Cooper in no. 5. That would have made quite a story, though. #benjaminmaisani
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    11/02/09


    @mostlymartian: i don't know...look at the 'chick's' nose and then at Anderson's nose in this pic #benjaminmaisani
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    11/03/09

    @xyzpdq: AC has a thinner face, a more pointed nose tip, and much paler skin.

    More importantly the guy in the pic is man named Stephen (who posted about it here: [stephenrader.blogspot.com] ). #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of Spirit Fingers Spirit Fingers
    11/02/09

    In reply to Anderson Cooper's Boyfriend: The Shirtless Edition
    Sorry, I'm not feeling the hawt. He looks a little geeky, slightly cross-eyed, and uh, sweaty. Somehow I'm getting a post gym pitt-waft vibe from him. I'd much prefer a well cut, tailored shirt and pant, than the ubiquitous chippendales beefcake shot. #benjaminmaisani
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    Image of Elektra Elektra
    11/03/09

    @Spirit Fingers: "post gym pitt-waft": You say that as if it's a bad thing. #benjaminmaisani
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